By Pat Erdenberger, Hoodland CPO, For The Mountain Times
We welcome a very busy month of April! Most of you know that the goal of the Hoodland Community Planning Organization (HCPO) is to bring County information to our Hoodland community and provide a voice back to the County.
The HCPO will hold an in-person community meeting on Thursday, April 17th at 7PM at the Mt. Hood Resort’s main building, the Doug Fir Room. The topic for our meeting will be of interest to many. We’re a community of both residents and holiday seekers. We always want to know more, be more informed and share our thoughts.
Bringing together two viewpoints for community success and livability, Peter Himes, a new HCPO Board member and President of the Mt. Hood Livability Coalition will bring us up to speed on the progress and challenges with the County’s Short Term Rental Program. And a second speaker we will engage will be a local property management company representative to share insights into the property rental business. Contact Lisa Massena at Lisa.Hoodlandcpo@gmail.com
Marti Bowne of the HCPO Board is planning an early April meeting to help us all get up to speed on GMRS Radios. The CPO is continuing to work on a simplified framework for citizens’ emergency communication. Provisionally named the “Hoodland Emergency Communication Network (HECN)” the concept has already attracted interest from several dozen people living in the Hoodland CPO area.
HECN would constitute a Mt. Hood corridor communications network for emergencies and will provide a helpful measure of resilience in our community. Please continue to contact us at: hoodlandcpo@gmail.com if you are curious and interested in more information.
Mountain Science Night will return in another very exciting event that will continue the series of science speakers that began in March. The success of the March standing-room-only event has resulted in the generous offer of a larger room for the in April evening at the Rendezvous Restaurant and Grille in Welches. Bring your friends – this will be fun.
The April 2nd Mountain Science Night will feature Jeff Kline, Phd, OSU Faculty and Research Forester, USDA PNW Research Station. Dr Kline’s areas of interest in research are environmental and natural resource economics, land use, public policy. He will be addressing some of the challenges and responsibilities for us in the potential changing wildfire regime in Western Oregon. Please join us in support of this Mt. Hood Corridor Wildfire Partnership event on Wednesday, April 2nd 6:00-7:30PM at the Rendezvous.
Thanks to the Mountain Times, the Rendezvous Restaurant, the Mt. Hood Corridor Wildfire Partnership, and the wonderful Mt. Hood Resort in Welches, OR.
“It Takes This Village”